"As City Council Speaker Chris Quinn is up in Albany with Mayor Bloomberg, lobbying for the legalization of same-sex marriage, the Living Wage NYC coalition is continuing to push her on their own agenda, as you can see from the letter below. This time, the coalition argues for the passage of the controversial legislation -- on which Quinn has yet to take a stance -- on the grounds that even those who do have jobs often struggle to put food on the table." Daily News, May 17, 2011

Thursday at 4:00 PM tens of thousands of people will flood Wall Street for a peaceful protest and teach-in to demonstrate opposition to the few who prosper while the City attempts to balance the budget on low-income New Yorkers.

On Tuesday evening, the Coalition Against Hunger held their annual spring benefit - New York City...A Future Hunger-Free Town - at Bayard's in downtown Manhattan. It was a great success, bringing together 200 NYCCAH supporters for a night of jazz, cocktails, hors d'œuvres, and mingling.

Self-styled conservative pundit Michelle Malkin just published a column on National Review Online that places politics over facts to slam an innovative public/private, faith-based/secular partnership that is effectively fighting domestic hunger across the United States.

Continuing a trend first discovered a year ago, people in seven of the 13 congressional districts in New York City still faced severe food hardships in 2009-2010. More than 20 percent of residents in nine of those districts lacked money for food, according to just-released data collected by the Gallup Organization on behalf of the Washington, DC-based Food Research and Action Center (FRAC).